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Google Starts Running Fiber In Kansas City

Posted by samzenpus on from the lets-get-it-started-in-here dept.

New submitter Kiyyik writes "After weeks of wrangling over shared space on utility poles, Google and the KC Board of Public Utilities have gotten their act together and Google is starting to wire Kansas City, Kansas today. They will be paying attachment fees and hanging the fiber optic lines in the space on the poles reserved for telecommunications. The Kansas City, Missouri side is still on track to begin a few months behind the Kansas side."

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  1. Re:I can't wait by SJHillman · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It's going on existing utility poles, which tells me two things:
    1) It's much, much cheaper for the initial implementation as well as any additions or repairs later on compared to burying it
    2) The poles already exist, so tornadoes are likely already accounted for by the existing infrastructure